teenagers room reveal...

i'm sure your expecting some beautiful or cool room reveal but that's not the case up in here. this weekend i decided it was time to fix up the teenagers room. i even have a board on pinterest for their room. all these ideas in my head and on the board. first we had to declutter and clean the room. i shit you not it took us a little over seven hours (teenage boys work at a much slower rate and want many breaks). here's a little before:

here's the crap we took out of their room. at the end we had four bags to donate, one bag for the HMIC(clothes that doesn't fit the boys but maybe dad wants), 4 bags of trash and a mountain of dirty laundry.

oh and we also found two lost kids.

my ideas for the room were one black wall, chevron walls, drapes, a rug, a bed, pillows, matching bedding and rearranging furniture. instead what i got was a whole lot of nothing no cooperation. my ideas got shot down by everyone. the HMIC said " you can paint the room just not black". (like really like you know what the end result will be...men.) don't get me wrong if i feel like it i will veto his thoughts on the paint. as far as the teenagers go one said "really mom your gonna move the nightstand where am i going to put my laptop" and "i don't like the saying on the print i don't agree with it"(who says you have to agree as long as it looks cool). the other teenager said "mom this is our room so stop telling us how to decorate" and "i like my posters why should i move them"(can't these men in my life just go with the flow and know it will look awesome when i'm done). here's there room in all it's glory or lack of:

 

as you can see i pretty much left it alone. the old drapes were just pushed to one side and never looked right so i pulled them down. as far as the posters i let them be (for now). maybe one day i will come in here and change it up when they're not home paint it. at the end of the day it's not my room and i want them to express themselves or lack of expressing.